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Somehow, this hacked to hell-and-back forum has survived almost TEN years in its current incarnation. I'd paste some random facts about 2005 here so impress/patronise you all, but I'm sure you don't need to know what song was at #1 in the charts or what country the president had most recently shot people in to appreciate that ten years is a hell of a long time.

To mark 10 years (and a couple of weeks) since SG2G5 was launched, I'm suggesting we hold a "Square Gamer Day".

On Saturday May 30th, we'll attempt to get as many SG forum members as possible out of the woodwork for a day of spam. It may just end up being 3 of us posting in the "Last person to post..." thread, but let's give it a try. If you're still in tough with anybody who used to post here, let them know, SG day is on 30th May!

Click on the link for the official run down on what it's all about. If I wanted to easily explain what it is, I'd say it's facebook + digg + imdb + metacritic + the old SG news site all wrapped up in a sexy looking gaming burrito with some special sauce to boot.

In addition here's a raw feature list of what currently is in place for Hype Up and there's still even more stuff being worked on. I'm extremely proud of it and I think once you see it in action in the next few months after we launch, you'll see the list below doesn't even really do it justice.

Gaming News / Reviews / etc

- Dedicated news team
- Registered users can post to the index page's user news section via wysiwyg editor
- All posts can be assigned a related game which will display game info above the article
- All posts display an ID card for the author with bio info and a link to follow/add friend and links to other posts by author
- Videos from youtube can be added to posts via API search
- front end upload for story related images/screenshots which are automatically catagorized by game, thumbnailed...